Vivian Wu

Vivian Wu

Date of Birth: 05 Feb 1966

Country: China

Total Credits at Criticker: 24 (Actor)

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    Blindness
    A blind Asian-American woman lives with her son and daughter-in-law. The two women barely tolerate one another and the son, a doctor simply turns himself off to avoid any confrontation with either. Into this environment, an armed intruder breaks in. He is eventually revealed to be an old family friend who was sent to prison for murdering his father, but he insists that the older woman's husband, now deceased, was the actual murderer.
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    Dinner Rush
    Set on one lively night at a trendy restaurant in the TriBeCa area of New York City, this is a rapid-fire tale of gangsters, gourmet food, high-flying chefs, bookies and obnoxious patrons made real with snappy dialogue and an experienced ensemble cast. (Access Motion Picture Group)
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    The Joy Luck Club
    The story of four remarkable friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak. Their lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of the startling events and conditions that have shaped their lives -- and how these experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children. (Hollywood Pictures)
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    8 1/2 Women
    After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure... (imdb)
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    The Last Emperor
    The story of the final Emperor of China. (imdb)
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    Chinaman
    When Keld's frustrated wife leaves him, he begins to eat dinner at the family-run Chinese take-out across the street. He finds an unexpected friend in Feng. Keld helps fix the plumbing in the diner, and then Feng asks for assistance with another problem: his Chinese sister requires a marriage of convenience to stay in Denmark. Enter Ling, a woman who is not at all comfortable with this arrangement.
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
    The turtles find themselves transported back in time to ancient Japan. (imdb)
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    The Pillow Book
    As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book"... (imdb)
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    The Guyver
    A young man discovers a mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a cyborg superhero... (imdb)
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    Beauty Remains
    Set in 1948 against the backdrop of Communism's rise, "Fei" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, a legendary business entrepreneur, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything. (imdb)
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    Eve and the Fire Horse
    Chinese Canadian sisters try to cope with their grandmother's death through Christianity.
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    Message from Nam
    Inspired by her father, whom she lost at a young age, Paxton Andrews shuns a traditional Southern upbringing to follow her own path. Embarking on a career which will eventually change her entire life, she attends college at Berkeley. Whilst majoring in journalism, Paxton meets Peter Wilson, a young law student and against her family's wishes they become inseparable... (imdb)
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    Vanishing Son
    Two students (Jian-Wa and Wago) in the Peoples Republic of China are forced to flee out of China after having taken part in a protest action for freedom (reference is made to the fights at Tiananmen Square in 1989). They come to America, and try to build up a new life. After a while, one of the brothers pursues a musical career while the other gets entangled in a criminal organization. (imdb)
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    Vanishing Son 2
    The continuing saga of the Chang brothers: Jian-Wa and Wago. Picking up where it left off, Jian-Wa has left L.A. after a gangfight which involved his brother Wago. Jian-wa travels to the south and finds that hatred comes in all forms as a group of racist whites feud with harmless Vietnamese fishermen. Jian-wa decides to side with the Vietnamese and help them defend themselves. Back in Los Angeles, Wago is enjoying his new life as a gangster.
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    Vanishing Son 3
    The saga picks up in Washington, DC where Jian-wa is competing in a classical music competition (under the name Michael Lee). Back in LA, Jian-wa's brother Wago is wanted by the F.B.I. and manage to pull Jian-wa back to L.A. for questioning. They also want him to infiltrate his brother's gang in order to save Wago. Can Jian-wa get Wago to see the truth about things before it's too late?
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    Encrypt
    Encrypt (2003) - TV Movie
    After an ecological apocalypse, Earth's population is nearly wiped out, and the survivors lead desperate lives. In exchange for food and medicine, former soldier John Garth (Grant Show) accepts a dangerous assignment to recover priceless artworks. Housed inside the heavily fortified Vincent Estate and guarded by a lethal robot, the masterpieces are almost impossible to retrieve, but Garth has no choice but to rise to the challenge.
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    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
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    Shadow of China
    A Chinese immigrant tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism. (imdb)
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    The Soong Sisters
    The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. (imdb)
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    The Chinese Widow
    Having bailed out after a bombing run on Tokyo, an American pilot is saved by a young local widow, who risks her life to hide the injured foreigner in her house. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they soon fall in love.
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    Dead Pigs
    A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai. (imdb)
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    The House That Never Dies II
    "That House That Never Dies II" is based on the true events of the spookiest of the Four Oriental Haunted Houses located at No.81 Chaonei, Beijing. During the last years of the Republic, the country was in chaos. With the warlords' mutiny in the capital, Marshal Zhang Zhisheng was forced to marry the great warlord's daughter Ji Jincui but subsequently, strange things occurred at the mansion. People were intimidated.
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    Shanghai Red
    A murder mystery set in contemporary Shanghai about a beautiful woman caught in a web of vengeance and deceit. (themoviedb.org)
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    Ruyi\
    This sequel to "Empresses In The Palace" depicts a royal romance in the palace at the time of the Yongzheng Emperor's passing and during the Qianlong Emperor's rise to the throne. (imdb)
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